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The Dean Tavern - A Gothenburg Experiment

Appendix 9

Easthouses

Easthouses had been a colliery village for hundreds of years before the village of Newtongrange was built. The Easthouses men were great exponents of quoiting (pronounced 'kiting') and cock fighting.

The Marquis of Lothian's Colliery School was at Easthouses until 1849 when he built one at Newtongrange and there was still an infant school in the village until well into this century. Easthouses Drift mine was opened in 1910 and closed in 1960. Throughout the nineteenth century the population of the village fluctuated between three and four hundred and it was not until 1924, when Bogwood housing scheme was begun by the Lothian Coal Co., that the village expanded much.

Easthouses has always retained its own identity despite the nearness of Newtongrange on one side and the sprawling modern housing scheme of Mayfield adjacent to the south. Previously Easthouses had a Burns Club, a homing society, its own gala day and a flower show. Easthouses Lily was their junior football team and the Dean built them a pavilion in 1911. In 1929 the football pitch was taken over to make a Welfare Park land a new pitch was built at the other side of the village, but it now lies unused and derelict.

The Easthouses professional games were famous before the First World War and these were revived for a few years as amateur games in the 1930s. An Institute was built with Dean Tavern money in 1925 and the building is now a Miners' Welfare Club with a licence. In 1934 a bowling green and pavilion was built in the park. A public house, the Barley Bree, opened in 1949.

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